<TITLE>02. Par 6-10</TITLE>L-6 I guess you wonder why I'm all scarred up across the face. Maybe many of you knew, just about four weeks ago a big Weatherby Magnum rifle blowed up in my face, and about, oh, six tons of pressure struck me right in the face. Should've just cleaned shoulders and head and all off. But you know, He knew I had to come up here yet, so He just left me so I could. So He didn't take me that time.
And so, I was--I always like to shoot targets and fish. And I'm kind of glad the Lord let me do that, because I like to be outside in nature. Someone had just give me a rifle. It was a--a converted over rifle, and so the headspace wasn't bored out in it. And I put the shell in it, raised up to shoot the target, and that's all I seen was red fire about as high as that ceiling. And the gun barrel went fifty yards out in front of me, and the stock and bolt went twenty-five or thirty yards behind me, and cut down the bushes and trees and things around me. And I don't know... It's only God let me live, is all.

L-7 And it's a wonder it didn't put my eyes out. It shot several pieces right into the skull around there, and knock--went through the lips here, and knocked that tooth out there. Knocked the top of it off. And fifteen pieces went just below the sight. Made a half moon to keep it from cutting the sight out.
They taken me over to the doctor. He said, "The only thing that I know, that the good Lord must've been setting there, and wasn't ready for His servant to go yet." Looked like Satan was sure trying hard. But you know, I'm--I'm so glad that He is our safety Zone. He's--He's the place where we can come and feel safe.

L-8 I was preaching the other night on "The Name of the Lord is a tower, where the righteous run into it and are safe." Aren't you glad to be in there tonight? The great safety zone where all the devil's darts are passed away, by our shield of faith to know that we are standing in that safety zone, anchored in Christ, safe as we can be in there... Not even death, itself, can harm us. We're already dead. Our lives are hid in God through Christ, sealed in there by the Holy Ghost. Isn't that wonderful?

L-9 I was speaking, up at the meeting the other night. I said... I don't... Things that I say is not very much, but once in a while the Holy Spirit gives me something to say, and I just cherish it so much. I just love it. And He gave me something, a thought the other night, down home at the Tabernacle before coming up. And it--it just seemed to be the profound something that just took a hold of me.
I was thinking about evidence, and I was thinking of when Joshua went down, or... Well, first when Israel, God's people were all in bondage... They were slaves, and they--they had to take what was given to them. They threw out molded bread; they saw they had to eat it. If they had a--a lovely daughter, and the Egyptians wanted to take that girl out and ravish her, they couldn't do nothing about it. Had a son, a fine fellow, they wanted to kill him, there was nothing to do. They were slaves. What a life that must have been for the people of God to have to live in such a condition.

L-10 But one day coming down out of the wilderness came a prophet with a Pillar of Fire a following him. He told them that there was a land that was flowing with milk and honey, and they could have their own home, raise their children, live in peace. God loved them, and was going to take them to that land. None of them had ever been over there, you know. They--they just had to take his word for it. So they followed him out.
They came to a place called Kadesh-barnea, which we understand to be the great judgment seat. And it's supposed to be an oasis out there in the desert, where these big wells, and little springs which--we could go into types, and say that it's the throne of God, and the little judgment seats, the churches, outlets where judgment begins in the house of God.


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